The Linked Learning Graduate Certificate What is it? Why participate?

1. The Linked Learning Graduate CertificateWhat is it? Why participate? Nancy Farnan, San Diego State University, nfarnan@mail.sdsu.edu Penni Hudis, ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career, phudis@connectedcalifornia.org

2. Introductions • Who’s in the room?

3. Session Learning Outcomes • Describe a rationale for the certificate in Linked Learning • Describe the knowledge, skills, and abilities that are unique to successful teaching in the Linked Learning field • Articulate the ways the certificate program models key Linked Learning instructional strategies • Communicate to colleagues the content and value of completing the Linked Learning Certificate

4. Starting the Conversation • What skills and knowledge of Linked Learning teacher are missing from the Teacher Performance Expectations and traditional credential programs?

5. Certificate Program Courses • Foundations of Linked Learning • Linked Learning Pathway Design and Delivery • Integrated Curriculum Design, Implementation, and Assessment • Work-based Learning: Core Linked Learning Instructional Strategy • Rethinking Teacher Roles in Linked Learning Pathways

6. Collaborative Discussion • In a high functioning Linked Learning pathway, instruction is collaborative, student directed, outcome focused, relevant, and rigorous and integrated. • Which of these instructional features are the most difficult to achieve, and why? • Where do you think you, or pathways you have observed, have made the greatest strides toward implementing these features of teaching and learning?

7. Important to Note… • Mutually supportive connections between Linked Learning and the Common Core State Standards • Student learning outcomes, with an emphasis on higher order thinking skills • E.g., Problem solving, critical and creative thinking processes, and innovation • Compatible approaches to interdisciplinary curriculum, instruction, and performance-based assessment

8. Linked Learning and CCSS, cont. • Real-world integration and application of academic and technical skills and knowledge • Student assessment through authentic demonstrations of learning • E.g., portfolios, project defenses, exhibitions • Authentic communication and literacy skills * See Rustique, E., & Stam, B., (2013) The Linked Learning advantage: Using Linked Learning to implement the Common Core State Standards. Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education

9. Your Thoughts…. • What is the value of the Linked Learning Certificate? • What questions do you have?

10. Getting Involved • All five courses fully online • Offered through the College of Extended Studies at San Diego State University • Fully approved by SDSU Graduate Division • Cost approximately $300 for 3 graduate units • Next courses begin April 28, 2014 • FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT nfarnan@mail.sdsu.edu